Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Flexible pipe body and method of providing same
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Application No.: US14419893Application Date: 2013-07-12
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Publication No.: US09835273B2Publication Date: 2017-12-05
- Inventor: Richard Alasdair Clements , Krishna Kant Agarwal , Ravindra Devi , Jonathan David Leyland , Senthamil Selvan
- Applicant: GE Oil & Gas UK Limited
- Applicant Address: GB Nailsea, Bristol
- Assignee: GE Oil & Gas UK Limited
- Current Assignee: GE Oil & Gas UK Limited
- Current Assignee Address: GB Nailsea, Bristol
- Agency: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP
- Priority: EP12179490 20120807; EP13152092 20130121
- International Application: PCT/EP2013/064844 WO 20130712
- International Announcement: WO2014/023515 WO 20140213
- Main IPC: F16L11/15
- IPC: F16L11/15 ; F16L11/08 ; E21B17/01 ; B31B19/26

Abstract:
A flexible pipe body and method of producing a flexible pipe body, the flexible pipe body including a collapse resistant layer comprising a radially inner surface and a radially outer surface, the radially inner surface comprising a plurality of substantially regular protrusions and/or depressions extending in a direction perpendicular to a tangent of the radially inner surface, for breaking up a boundary layer of fluid flowing along the flexible pipe body in use.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150219253A1 FLEXIBLE PIPE BODY AND METHOD OF PROVIDING SAME Public/Granted day:2015-08-06
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